THE Chairman of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) Stavros Kremmos said yesterday the issue of telecommunications equipment ordered from Romanian arriving via the north was now closed.
Instead of being unloaded in Larnaca, the CyTA cargo was taken to Famagusta, then driven to the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint where it was turned back.
PARLIAMENT yesterday discussed a new bill that will give Turkish Cypriots living in the government-controlled areas the right to vote and be voted for in elections held in the free areas.
YIANNIS Papadopoulos, the publisher of Politis newspaper, is to appear in court on June 16 to answer charges of violating foreign exchange and corporate taxation laws.
NURSES of the Mental Health Service, demanding better working and living conditions for staff and patients, began strike action yesterday, and threatened to go island-wide if their demands were not met by next week.
A GREEK Cypriot father and daughter were due before court in the occupied north yesterday for allegedly stealing religious books from the north and taking them south.
Andreas and Niki Violari were arrested on Sunday while crossing over to the north for prayers at the Apostle Barnabas monastery.
THE Veterinary Services yesterday assured that none of the cow milk injected with a banned substance had made it to shop stores, but doubts persisted as the possibility could not be entirely ruled out.
INTERNET and phone bills will not be same this summer with the Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (CyTA) announcing “big changes” in call rates and internet line connections.
Top CyTA officials yesterday announced an increase in connection costs and fixed monthly telephone costs as well as special telephone payment packages that will be introduced as of June 1, 2005.
GERMAN football club FC Cologne has come up with a new kind of shirt sponsorship deal.
According to German website Spiegel Online, the club, which has recently been promoted into the Bundesliga, will promote not a company or a product, but an entire country – Cyprus.
EXPLORATORY talks aimed at a resumption of Cyprus negotiations began in New York yesterday between the UN and a Greek Cypriot envoy sent to assess the possibilities on the ground.
AS THE government enters the final stages of negotiations for a strategic investor to build a new airport and take over the operation of the existing ones, the annual summer chaos appears to have begun at Larnaca.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
